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Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Containing the COVID-19 Pandemic can be Repurposed to Eradicate TB

Elaborating on the steps taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Harsh Vardhan mentioned the Union Health Ministry’s recommendation of bi-directional TB-COVID screening, screening among ILI and SARI cases, intensifying of private sector engagement, re-deployment of the repurposed HR and CBNAAT and TrueNaT machines back to the TB program.

Covid-19: India Second in World in Testing

India has conducted the second highest number of tests for detection of Covid-19 in the world at 11.96 crore with rapid antigen tests comprising 49 per cent and RT-PCR 46 per cent of the total tests done till Tuesday morning, the Union health ministry said.
Five per cent tests were carried out using CBNAAT and TrueNat till this morning, it said.